You remember this shyt don't you?
http://www.examiner.com/article/arkansas-rep-claims-slavery-was-good-for-black-people
Rep. Jon Hubbard, a
Republican member of the
Arkansas state senate, claims that for black people in America,
slavery was a “blessing in disguise.” Hubbard also claims that black people are ignorant and lazy, and as a consequence, white people have been harmed by integration.
On Saturday, October 6 (2012), in response to the outrage and negative attention Hubbard and his claims were receiving in the popular press, the Arkansas state GOP chairman, the Arkansas Republican House Caucus and U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, all issued
statementscritical of Hubbard’s racial insensitivity.
Hubbard made his outrageous and offensive claims in a self-published book entitled:
Letters to the Editor, Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative.
In his book, Hubbard tries to justify slavery in America by pointing out that the ancestors of African slaves would ultimately be “
rewarded” with American citizenship:
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)
Hubbard also tries to defend the claim that life as a slave in America was preferable to a life of freedom in Africa by arguing African Americans must “understand that even while in the throes of slavery, their lives as Americans are likely much better than they ever would have enjoyed living in sub-Saharan Africa.”
And it doesn’t get better. Hubbard also
claims that black people lack discipline and ambition, and as such they have been a bad influence on white people:
“instead of black students rising to the educational levels previously attained by white students, the white students dropped to the level of black students. To make matters worse the lack of discipline and ambition of black students soon became shared by their white classmates, and our educational system has been in a steady decline ever since.”